Film Independent's Spirit Awards will air live -- and uncensored --tomorrow at 5 p.m. on the digital cable channel IFC. If you have regular old cable, you can watch the edited rebroadcast at 10 p.m. on AMC.

Actor Steve Coogan, who played a British film director in "Tropic Thunder" and an Arizona drama teacher in "Hamlet 2," will host the luncheon awards ceremony at Santa Monica Beach in California.

Presenters and performers will include: Jessica Alba, Christina Applegate, Alec Baldwin (also honorary chair), Elizabeth Banks, Jason Bateman, Thomas Haden Church, Bryan Cranston, Claire Danes, Laura Dern, Zooey Deschanel, Cameron Diaz, Aaron Eckhart, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Teri Hatcher, Anne Hathaway, Taraji P. Henson, Emile Hirsch, Robyn Hitchcock, Sir Ben Kingsley, John Leguizamo, Melissa Leo and Lucy Liu.

Plus Andie MacDowell, Michelle Monaghan, Sandra Oh, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ellen Page, Robin Wright Penn, Rosie Perez, Tarra Riggs, Blair Underwood, Kerry Washington, John Waters, Rainn Wilson and Evan Rachel Wood.

The ceremony will include musical spoofs of "Frozen River," "Ballast," "Wendy and Lucy" and, by Rainn Wilson, "The Wrestler." Robyn Hitchcock will perform a live acoustic version of "Up to Our Nex" from "Rachel Getting Married." Those five films are competing for best feature, one of 17 awards.

IFC.com will have a live streaming webcast during the red-carpet arrivals and from the press room along with other extras.

It's not too late to buy tickets to the Pittsburgh Film Office's annual Oscar gala, "Lights! Glamour! Action!" It will be Sunday at Heinz Field, Club Level East, and include a red carpet entrance, silent auction, VIP champagne reception and live broadcast of the ceremony.

Tickets range from $75 (when six or more are purchased) to $250 per person. Call the office at 412-261-2744 or go to pghfilm.org for details. The event has become a prime source of funding for the office, established in 1990. Since then, it has assisted nearly 90 movies and TV productions and generated an economic impact of more than $347 million here. for the region.

"Persepolis" will be the closing feature in Duquesne University's Human Rights Film Series. It will screen Wednesday at 7 p.m. in Room 105, College Hall, on Duquesne's campus.

Nusrath Ainapore of the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh and Duquesne's Office of International Programs will introduce the movie.

An Oscar nominee a year ago for animated feature, it's based on Marjane Satrapi's graphic novels about her years in her native Iran, plus a period in Austria. Almost entirely in black and white, it employs stylized realism to tell its remarkable story.

The showing is free and open to the public. Go to duq.edu/humanrights for more information. The series has touched on such issues as business ethics and environmental destruction.

Chris Ivey and Jeff Benson will be at Point Park University tomorrow as part of a program called "Black Reelz" about filmmakers with Pittsburgh ties.

A reception will start at 7 p.m., program at 8, with questions and answers from 9 to 10 p.m., at JVH Auditorium in Academic Hall, 201 Wood St., Downtown. It's free and open to the public, and actors and others are invited to bring headshots and resumes.

Benson, a graduate of Schenley High School and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, has earned festival kudos for "She's Got It," about a career-obsessed woman who finds her relentless pursuit of success threatened by a twisted mix of karma.

Ivey, a Squirrel Hill filmmaker, created a documentary series called "East of Liberty" addressing issues of race, class and gentrification as the neighborhood enjoys a burst of development.

In addition to participating in the Point Park program, Ivey will hold a fund-raiser and screening Monday at 6 p.m. in the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater in East Liberty. Suggested donation, $25, with the chance to buy the first two chapters of the series for $75 each.

At 7 p.m., the second installment called "In Unlivable Times" will screen at the theater. Admission for that part of the evening is $5 with a question and answer session to follow and be filmed for possible inclusion in the next installment.

Go to eastofliberty.com for more information.

"Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail" arrives in theaters today but was not screened for critics. After a high-speed freeway chase puts Madea in front of a judge, her reprieve is short-lived as anger management issues get the best of her and land her in jail. The movie is 103 minutes long and rated PG-13.

A movie called "Must Read After My Death" will open theatrically in New York and be available for digital viewing today at 10 a.m. at giganticdigital.com. Price is $2.99 for a three-day, unlimited viewing ticket.

"Must Read" is a documentary by Morgan Dews about his grandmother, Allis, who died in 2001 and left behind an archive of material that shed new, unsettling light on their family. Drawing on home movies and tape recordings, Dews chronicles his grandmother's struggle against conformity, particularly during the 1960s.

The movie will be streamed in up to HD quality, depending on the viewer's bandwidth and hardware.